Currently Scrum is the most popular Agile framework and many teams are willingly or forcefully adopting it. Since Scrum does not work like a magic tonic and cure all problems, sometimes it can create problems by making everything transparent. Another challenge for adopting scrum is the readiness of the team members or management.

In Bangladesh or any other country in the subcontinent, adopting scrum is a big challenge as we struggle with self managed team concept. we love to follow people rather than taking the lead. we are not aware of our potentials and capabilities. As a result we lack in self esteem and motivations.

If you are planning to adopt scrum at your organization, the following suggestions might be very helpful.

Today I spent a lot time to find a suitable library to convert UTF-8 text (specially Bangla) to hexadecimal values. After spending few hours with other online libraries, I have decided to write my own 🙂 these are pretty handy functions if you are using MPDF to create PDF with UTF-8 strings , specially in Bangla.

I was planning to move my blog to under my personal domain and it is now available at http://www.mizanurrahman.com. It will be an exact copy of this site including all posts and contents. I will be maintaining both of the site together to make sure that the visitors have the current information available in the both site.

Please feel free to ask me any questions. Thanks everyone for the support.

Yes our dream project, “Bangla PHP book” has started last week. Me, Hasin, Emran, Shureed and all those enthusiast developer from PHPXperts group really making it happen. Thanks to Hasin for his initiative and we are very optimistic to bring out a quality book very soon. If anyone is interested, you can join our project. more information on this project can be found here.

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About Me

I am Mizanur Rahman from Bangladesh. I am a Software Engineer by profession. I love to work on open source projects and specially web based systems. I am a moderator of the PHPExperts, the largest PHP Users group in Bangladesh.

I have my own startups Informatix Technologies and TechMasters. I am an Agile enthusiast and Scrum practitioner.